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NPR speaks with Debra Houry, the CDC's former chief medical officer, about her decision to leave her post and her concerns over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine decisions.

More than half a million high-skilled U.S. workers are in the country through the H-1B program, which is heavily used by the big tech companies trying to curry favor with the president.

At least three bullets were fired into the station, according to the Sacramento Police Department. Authorities are investigating a possible motive.

Vaccines will soon be more accessible to residents in California.

Today is Grito De Dolores, the Declaration of Independence of Mexico

Mystery novelist Janwillem van de Wetering (pronounced Yon-VIL-em VAN de VETering) Born in Rotterdam in 1931, Wetering was once a motorcycle gang member in South Africa, an aspiring monk in Kyoto, Japan, and a policeman in Amsterdam. He is currently living in Maine. The Dutch author's colorful past has led him to be known as an eccentric and hypnotic storyteller whose latest novel "The Hollow-Eyed Angel" (Soho), the 13th in his Amsterdam cop series, is a story of crime and modern morality. His novels "The Blond Baboon" and "The Maine Massacre" have recently been reprinted on Soho. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

Arlen Levy is a Newsroom Fellow with Crosscurrents 2026 Audio Academy

World music commentator MILO MILES reviews some dancehall reggae by Jamaican-born New Yorker, Shaggy. His debut album is "Pure Pleasure," (V

In HIM, Withers plays a rising quarterback. His on-screen mentor, Marlon Wayans, had some real-life advice — and a reading list — for the young actor.

Soviet born journalist MASHA GESSEN (GUESS-N) has just edited a new collection of post-Soviet fiction by women, Half A Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women (Cleis Press, Pittsburg, PA.). GESSEN says that most of the writers in the collection belong to the "mute generation" that came of age under Brezhnev. GESSEN's immigrated to the U.S. in 1981, when she was 14 to be with her parents. She's been an editor, primarily in gay and lesbian press, and was international editor at THE ADVOCATE. GESSEN has now repatriated to Russia.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back, but New York Times reporter Adam Liptak and former Washington Post editor Marty Baron say the Trump administration is using federal power to control speech and the press.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back, but New York Times reporter Adam Liptak and former Washington Post editor Marty Baron say the Trump administration is using federal power to control speech and the press.